Hey Mikey!
i have an opportunity to pickup a showtime NIB for a very good price. Two of my flying buddies have the Showtime and have let me fly them. I was extremely impressed with how it flew!! I would love to pick one up, but I dread the thought of going back to a large glow plane....I hate the mess and hassle of glow engines. I've been flying 100cc gassers almost exclusively (most recently a Carden Extra 330) and have been spoiled.
Then I saw the new Evolution 26 gasoline engines and that got me goin "hmmm!". The evo seems comparable in weight(within a couple oz.) of a saito 180. It seems to me that with the right equipment, I should be able to keep the ST right around (and maybe with luck under) 10lbs. Both of the glow-powered ST's I've flown were right at 9lbs. (one with a saito 100 that really needed a little extra "oomph", and the other with an OS 1.08 that felt decently powered).
So my question to you, oh great and mighty one (
), is do you think the little evo gasser would be a good (even if not ideal) match for the ST? How much of an impact do you think the extra pound of weight will make on a plane this size? Would the wing loading be increased to a point that 3D performance would start to suffer?
Your thoughts are appreciated.